No fly lists in USA

[caesar]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...21/ixworld.html

It is getting a bit ridiculous when a well known easily recognized long termed senator such as Ted Kennedy is denied boarding.

Read this UK Telegraph story

[maplesyrup]

That's why this whole security thing is a farce.

Bush was so worried about terrorism and/or security and yet they don't even have a proper system at the airports because they don't pay decent wages and therefore don't get top notch employees.

Imagine! That does not bode well for a vote of confidence in the US security system, if they don't even have people involved that know Senator Kennedy.

Unfortunately that's what happens when you pay minimum wage or close to it.

[KrustyKidd]

Bush was so worried about terrorism and/or security and yet they don't even have a proper system at the airports because they don't pay decent wages and therefore don't get top notch employees.

I think the problem here is that it is too stingent for your liking. If I remember right, most people immediately after 911 were worried as well and, highly critical of the airline industry for allowing just anybody to get on a plane. Now it's too much. Too little, too much and soon to come ...... just right.

When you hire X number of people to provide extra security and don't want travel expenses to go through the roof, things like this are bound to happen. If they hirred only Mensa members as security staff you would have a civil rights case on your hands and air travel would be so high the industry would collapse.

[caesar]

You don't have to be a Mensa member to realize Ted Kennedy is not a threat nor should anybody have any trouble recognizing him.

[KrustyKidd]

Get real. Go to a Canadian airport and I'd be willing top bet that most security people there don't know who Giles Ducceppe is much less what he looks like. See, most people are not into politics like we are. Especially just hired airport security people, half of whom are hired by filling gender and racial quotas. Tell me, you think the average Pakestani immigrant employed at Pearson knows who Mike Harris is? Bet they don't know what Stephan Harper looks like either.

[caesar]

Giles Duceppe is not that well known. There is a big difference. We are talking about Ted Kennedy. American royalty; well known in the scandal sheet papers until the past few years. There is no comparison to Duceppe; Ted would compare more closely to Trudeau while he was alive.

[KrustyKidd]

To you maybe, then you probably pick up a newspaper once in awhile. You assume that people who work for near minimum wage are all into current events when more than likely they are simply doing a job and going home at the end of the day. Ever watch Leno or Letterman where they ask questions to people on the street like "Which country is to the north of the USA?" and the answers range from "Russia" to "I dunno." These same people don't even know who Kerry is much less that he is running for office and you figure they use flash cards to recognize famous personalities?

Speaking of which, you can bet that Snoop Doggie Dog would be recognized well before Kennedy in this case.